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Greetings! This is now an older version of a C3WP website. You can find the current NWP College, Career and Community Writers Program website by following this link: https://sites.google.com/nwp.org/c3wp/home.


The College, Career, and Community Writers Program answers the contemporary call for respectful argumentative discourse. The instructional resources help teachers and students read critically, explore multiple points of view, and finally take a stand on important issues.

Resources Update

Be sure to check out the premiere of American Creed on February 27th! You and your students are invited to add your stories to the conversation about our American Creed. This invitation to write is right in line with the goals of C3WP with a focus on meaningful civic participation and dialogue. Check out this Educator Innovator blog post to learn more and be sure to sign up for the American Creed Educator Resources website.

We also have a new resource available, under Professional Development Resources, an infosheet called Quick Sort for Debriefing a Co-Taught Lesson.

Check out our newly posted resource, Approaches to Coaching, under Professional Development Design.

C3WP Program Design Principles

Professional Development

Intensive and embedded teacher-to-teacher PD to support classroom instruction in the teaching of argument writing

Instructional Resources

A year-long arc of intentionally sequenced instructional resources that support students’ developing skills in writing arguments

Formative Assessment

A variety of easy-to-use formative assessment tools that help teachers determine what their students can do and where to focus next instructional steps

C3WP Instructional Resources Design Principles

Each Resource:

  • Focuses on a specific set of skills or practices in argument writing that build over the course of an academic year

  • Provides text sets that represent multiple perspectives on a single topic, beyond pro and con

  • Engages students in iterative reading and writing practices that build knowledge about a conversation focused on a single topic

  • Supports the writing of recursive claims that emerge and evolve through the reading and writing process

  • Supports students in creating intentional organizational structures that are designed to advance the argument, not based on formulas (e.g. five-paragraph theme)

  • Provides formative assessment opportunities embedded in classroom practice and professional conversations that identify areas of strength and inform next steps for teaching and learning